Guest Scott Spangler is an instrument-rated commercial pilot and the founding editor of Flight Training magazine. He launched and edited NAFI Mentor for the National Association of Flight Instructors, and was editor in chief of EAA publications. As a freelancer he’s written for Air & Space Smithsonian, Overhaul & Maintenance, Aviation for Women, Twin & Turbine, Avionics News, Kitplanes, a number of non-aviation titles. Oh, and of course, he posts at the Jetwhine blog.

Scott joins Max, David, Dan and Rob to talk about the week’s aviation news and how to get started on an aviation career. That plus This Week in Aviation and the Australia Desk report.

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Opening and closing music is provided by Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. You can find his great music at http://www.brotherloverocks.com/. Australia Desk music is “Six Months In a Leaky Boat” by Split Enz.

Also, Airplane Geeks Historian David Vanderhoof provides This Week in Aviation, Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast have their Australia Desk report, and Court has another Wiskey Tango Foxtrot look at aviation.

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Richard Aboulafia, an industry analyst and VP of analysis at Teal Group, joins The Geeks this week as we talk airplanes. It turns out that Richard is not only very knowledgeable about the aviation industry, but he’s also very funny. We spend almost the entire hour talking with him about the news:

Max’s pick of the week is a double shock with Aircraft Nicknames and Aviation Alias. Both sites offer the endearing and sometimes humorous nick-names we give our aircraft.

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Max and Court welcome Joel Mier from the Think for a Moment blog as he talks about his “Open Letter to the Airline Industry Leadership.” As a marketing professional experienced in a variety of industries, Joel provides an interesting perspective on customer service in the airline industry. Of course, there’s still a plethora of news to cover:

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It’s all VLJ’s this week as Max and Court welcome Shane Price from the Eclipse Aviation Critic NG Blog. Shane shares his expertice with the VLJ industry in some interesting conversations about the new industry.

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Brother Love is responsible for this episode’s opening and closing
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This week, Max and Court welcome Lynn Gardner to the Airplane Geeks Podcast. Lynn is a Citation X pilot as well as a consultant for corporate and sport aviation. Since we missed last week due to the power outage, we decided to throw in a little extra news:

But the big news to come out of episode 9 is the announcement about episode 10. We’ll be holding the first live aviation new media meet-up through Talkshoe.com. Sunday evening at 8:00 pm EST (That’s midnight zulu, for you true airplane geeks), we’ll be holding a live podcast. If you have an aviation related site, blog, or podcast, we want to hear from you. You can view the detailed information at http://www.airplanegeeks.com/live.